Mint & Burn

In this episode, we discuss ‘The Validator Commons’, an initiative that was started via Metagov.org to create a space for blockchain validators to coordinate and cooperate in their role as operators and governors of public blockchains. This exciting conversation covers some of the dynamics, challenges, and controversies of blockchain validators - a little understood but incredibly important aspect of blockchain governance. This episode was recorded live at the ‘What’s Governing Web3?’ conference in Melbourne in December, 2022.

In this special episode as the third installment in the ‘Digital Ethnography in Blockchain & Governance Reading Group, we’re joined by ethnographer Ellie Rennie and speculative fiction scholar Kola Heyward-Rotimi to discuss a co-authored piece that took place at ‘Decentralized Web Camp’ in 2022. We discuss speculative fiction as a method, “LARPing”, and reflecting on one’s own research methods in Web3.

In this episode, we’re joined by Dane Lund from AllianceDAO and resident legal scholar Dr. Aaron Lane to talk about DAO labour and the legal risks of participating in DAOs, DAO policy developments, and the future possibilities of DAOs. Please note that none of this episode is intended as legal advice.

We’re back, with the ‘Digital Ethnography in Blockchain Reading Group’, session 2. Kelsie, Tara & CEnt are joined by Quinn DuPont, author of a number of quintessential blockchain studies, including “Experiments in algorithmic governance: A history and ethnography of “The DAO”, a failed decentralised autonomous organization”. Learn about ethnographic methods, grounded theory, and current research interests

In this wide-ranging and engaging episode we are joined by computer scientists Dr Thomas Hardjono from MIT Connection Science lab . We discuss Web3.0, data, cooperative data governance models, identity, and trust from an interdisciplinary perspective. “At the end of the day it’s about human beings, it's about societies, it's about communities. It's not about technology”.